LETTER: A right to ignore history

By MICHAEL J. CLEMENT, Worcester

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Mr. Glantz ignores history and the obvious in his rant about the NRA and guns. It is easy for him to set up “straw men” in his farcical threats from our Canadian, Mexican and Caribbean neighbors and then knock them down with theatrical “exploding hockey pucks” (the reference would be more fitting to describe the state of the NHL.)

Don’t forget that the two most essential guarantees of freedom in Anglo-American history, the Magna Carta and the Constitution, an extension of the Declaration of Independence, were forged by conflict between armed citizens and their governors.

The most egregious takeover of a country in the 20th century, if not Western history occurred in no small measure because Hitler’s “police” were armed and the other 90 percent of Germans were unarmed. And here in the U.S. there is that little matter of thugs armed to the teeth. Thus Mr. Glantz has the right to protect his person and freedoms with exploding hockey pucks if he wishes. Thank God our founding fathers understood history and had the foresight to pass the 2nd Amendment.